Tobias Gutmann
Tobias Gutmann
Tobias Gutmann
Associate Professor
My passion is to help students, practitioners, and scholars better understand, create, and manage technology-driven, transformative innovation.
Scientist and Advisor
Prof. Dr. Tobias Gutmann is Associate Professor at EBS Business School. His research focuses on innovation management in technology-driven transformations at the nexus of strategic innovation management, technology management, and entrepreneurship.
He co-heads the Institute for Technology, Innovation & Customer Centricity (TICC) and leads the Siemens Product Innovation Lab.
With 10 years of experience in the corporate world, he has extensive experience in business development, strategy, innovation management, and corporate venturing.
He has been a consultant to several multinational companies, helping them to (re-)design their innovation strategy to achieve long-term business impact.
He has lived in Germany, Spain, Denmark, the UK, and the US and is passionate about innovation and technology.
He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and International Management, and a Ph.D. from HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. He was a visiting scholar at the Copenhagen Business School and UC Berkeley.
Vita
Academic Positions
- Academic Director, M.A. in Business at EBS (Specialisation: Digital Transformation)Business School, Germany (since 09/2022)
- Member of the Faculty Council at EBS Business School, Germany (since 05/2022)
- Visiting Scholar at University of California Berkeley, USA (05/2022 – 08/2022)
- Visiting Scholar at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (04/2021 – 07/2022)
- Deputy Member of the Senate at EBS Business School, Germany (since 10/2020)
- Founder and Co-Director of Institute for Technology, Innovation & Customer Centricity (TICC) (since 10/2020)
- Founder and Director of Siemens Product Innovation Lab (since 05/2020)
- Assistant Professor at BS Business School, Germany (since 03/2020)
Non-Academic Positions
- Project Leader for Venture Growth at Next47 GmbH, USA, Israel, Germany (03/2017 – 02/2020)
- Venture Technology Manager at Siemens AG, Germany (09/2016 – 03/2017)
- Business Development and Strategy at Siemens AG, Germany, UK (03/2014 – 09/2016)
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- Electrical Engineer (Dual Course of Study) at Siemens AG, Germany (09/2010 – 03/2014)
Professional Activities
I advise executives in a variety of organizations across many industries and operational settings - from Global 500 companies to emerging start-ups and social ventures.
The common denominator in this aspect of my work tends to be organizations that are in the midst of significant change struggling with innovation.
I prefer to work shirtsleeves-style directly with my clients' executives, employees, and teams so that their ideas inform my recommendations without losing my independent perspective.
This collaborative approach improves the chances for successful implementation of suggestions. Even though my clients hire me to work side-by-side with large consulting firms, I do much of my work either alone or with small teams that I assemble depending on the task at hand.